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Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose (nbcnewyork.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC New York: Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, died of an accidental overdose, the city's medical examiner announced Tuesday. According to the autopsy results, Kroll died of "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine." Kroll, 34, was found dead in his SoHo, Manhattan, apartment on Dec. 16, 2018. Police responded to a 911 call for a welfare check at the Spring Street apartment where they found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the apartment, a New York Police Department spokesman previously told NBC News. Kroll was named the chief executive of HQ Trivia, a phone-based trivia platform, in September. Prior to that, Kroll co-founded Vine, the popular short-form video service acquired in 2012 by Twitter. Vine was discontinued four years later.
Out of all the drugs out there, stay away from heroin.
Because heroin and cocaine don't fuck you up enough?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/09/china-deadliest-export-fentanyl-editorials-debates/2229428002/ - 80 Americans a day = a lot, even for Heroin.
That is quite the cocktail of drugs right there...
Seems like less of a mistake and more like no fucks to give.
fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine
truly amazing, last time I went to Whole Foods I also accidentally ended up with fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Ther but for the grace of godly Whole Foods staffers go I
I wrote a kick ass hosts file on heroin... apk
Nothing that followed was an accident. It was his choice.
You don't have to worry about dying that way.
You cannot afford it. Vodka it the best I can manage.
What was his net worth?
But this sounds like a 'nothing of importance was lost.' situation.
The guy with the wife and the encrypted laptop and no backup of the cold wallet exchange password sounded like a bigger loss.
He coulda spent the money on hookers and blow, or stayed alive if he just picked hookers, and an Aventador for me.
And y do I care?
We've been losing bright minds to drugs for well over a century and we keep repeating our mistakes over and over.
But drugs are a billion dollar industry, so we'll never stop them. Just like how tobacco and alcohol are with us forever. Too big to be stopped.
We've been told how many times that drugs are bad?
Yeah, not surprised at all.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Accidental death while drunk driving a car full of 10,000 angry wasps 150 mph into oncoming traffic while blindfolded and both arms tied behind his back.
Natural selection at work.
Even when it isn't.
Inquiring minds want to know...
None of these chemicals are lying around a normal household.
None of these chemicals are prescribed together by a doctor.
All are known to be dangerous!
If you died with all these in your system, it is because of your STUPIDITY, not an accident.
Admit the truth, he did something stupid, he did not get all that inside him by an accident.
Get injured, get put on painkillers, lose job because of injury, insurance goes with it, not can only get treatment from shady doctors who are in the pay of the painkiller manufacturers, they get shut down. Now only source of medical treatment are emergency rooms, stil have pain and are addicted to opioids, and the only source left for them are dealers.
Seems a quite likely progression.
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
For when you want to go out like a real superstar.
The Chinks are poisoning all the drugs to kill westerners. They are at war with us you know?
The Chinese have controlled most of the heroin distribution out of Afghanistan since before the Russian and CIA invasions.
They have poisoned the well to kill westerns, show our obvious degenerate nature to their citizens, and explode our healthcare and emergency response costs.
Fent is killing 2000 Canadians a month.
Do the Math. The is Chinese warfare.
How ironic, we keep being told that the way to be happy, the strongest expression of vitality, is to be an Entrepreneur, or a CEO. And yet, in order to sustain this type of life, one must poison himself like that man did.
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
its not accidental if you take it your self is it?
if i aim for my thumb with a hammer its not an accident because it hurtds or gets squashed is it?
someone was walking towards you with needle outstreched from a heroin syringe, trips and accidentally inject you with it then its accidental...
but junkie killingthemself with drugs is no accident. ots deliberate and a cause of being stupid
Any drug addict or recreational user clearly knows that any use of these drugs puts one at risk of death. In essence it is exactly like playing Russian Roulette and then claiming the suicide was an accident. In fact, taking dope is clearly a form of suicide.
anybody?
But why was he using these drugs in the first place? My guess would be that he suffered from bipolar disease, formerly known as manic-depressive disease. I suspect that many high achievers are bipolar, or at least manic. It's common for them to self-medicate, to control either the manic or depressive states. I am not a lawyer.
With that amount of shit in his system I think the word 'accident' is a bit of a stretch!
Drug addicts are the raw sewage of humanity.
resort. It's extremely dangerous in even small doses and is primarily for use on dying patients in extreme pain when a disease has progressed so far that nothing else will reduse the pain. I had to administer this stuff to my dying father as he was ravaged by cancer; that's the ONLY time people should be using the stuff and in certain circumstances like that it's desperately needed. I was not even willing to handle it without double-gloving (it's been known to penetrate single layers of nitrile gloves, and some first responders have overdosed on the stuff simply by touching it at the scene of some idiot's overdose). Anybody using this stuff for recreation should just save society a lot of trouble and go blow their brains out with a 9mm.
This stuff really pisses me off because morons playing with pain killers for kicks lead to deaths which lead to lawmakers passing laws further restricting the stuff, and lawsuits against the makers leading to higher prices, and both of those things end up making it harder for ordinary decent responsible people to get the things they desperately and legitimately need.
If they blew their brains out with a 9mm, we'd have people using that as justification for banning guns.
Maybe the real idiots are the ones who think it's more effective to dump on suicidal people and drug addicts, versus holding their leaders accountable for restricting pain doctors to the point of uselessness.
The truth is, they sold you the lockdown of pain clinics as a solution to the drug problem. You bought it hook, line, and sinker. Now you are dealing with the blowback of these policies, and pretending you are a powerless observer in the situation. The guys who make the rules are accountable to you, they do what you allow them to do. Your attitude and hatred is what makes the lawmakers feel like they need to crack down on "pill mills full of addicts". I can promise you, no addict ever voted for someone who ran on a platform of locking down pharmacies and clinics.
Look up who instituted these policies that are inconveniencing your doctor, and who put them there. You either voted for the guy, or you failed to vote against him. I guarantee it.
Just buy enough heroin, and you will get some.